Hello! As you will see, I abandoned all hope last year after the summer and keeping up with the grocery budget. Which also carried over into the new year. And halfway through February, apparently.
On Monday when I got home from grocery shopping, I decided, what the heck. Instead of just flinging things into the kitchen as usual, I dropped it all onto the dining room table and quickly took pictures of everything I bought. So, we shall see if this trend will continue. I hope I don’t crash and burn with this system of keeping myself accountable like all of the others I’ve tried, but we shall see.
Because here’s the thing. If I don’t tell you guys about my grocery budget, I just go blithely about my day, week, month, and year without looking at the big picture. Which is BAD. As you will see in January’s total below. Yes, I see the receipts each time I shop, but that’s just a weekly number that quickly adds up at the end of the month into a monster. Sooooo.
Without further ado, here’s what we bought this week – so far…..
We are trying valiantly, to find food that Oreo will actually eat. This one is a big fat failure too. I’ll write up an entire post about Oreo for you so you won’t be lost….
We are deep into winter and the tomatoes make me want to cry. But, BUT! I had the most amazing Tommy toes, or cherry tomatoes to everyone who didn’t grow up in my family, a few days ago and when I asked, they told me they bought them at our local Food Lion. So when I was shopping Monday, I literally sniffed every package of Tommy toes they had until I found one that SMELLED like a tomato. And they are divine. I can’t wait to get my tomato plants into the ground!
I always buy at least two or three pounds of Honey Crisp apples every week for Hayden alone. This time they also had an Ambrosia apple for $0.99 a pound. Have you ever tried these? I bought one to see if it goes over well at our house. For some reason, he has a reaction to Gala apples every single time he tries to eat one. But, we all love Honey Crisp apples.
Do you have a favorite place to buy your hamburger meat? We have tried everywhere, including the local butcher and Food Lion has the best ground beef – hands down. Don’t ask me how, but it tastes so much better.
“Cookies” for the 15 year old puppy. These, he absolutely loves.
I have bought two bottles of Lysol and can NOT find either of them. Do you know how much Lysol costs?!? $5.77!! They didn’t have any of the great value brand. Sometimes you need this stuff. Maybe like when someone cuts up the pineapple that’s been in the fridge for two weeks and leaves the peels in the garbage can overnight. Even if you scrub, and scrub, that smell will not go away. Hence the Lysol.
Anywho, the totals are below. This week turned out better than I expected. Some weeks are like this, and then other weeks my budget goes out the window. You know, because I’m not paying attention to those pesky numbers….
Wal-Mart $53.54
Aldi $0.00
Food Lion $36.93
Dollar Tree $0.00
Total spent for this week $90.47
January $740.71
February $224.32
Total spent for the Year so far: $965.03
- Got back this summer: Got back for the year:
- ibotta $ $
- Checkout 51 $ $
- Receipt Hog Coins Coins
- Walmart Savings Catcher
$0.00 $0.00
- Fetch points points
- (referral code – QF4TJ)
Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year?
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